Summary Of Stiff By Mary Roach

Step 3: The part I loved the best was everything. I enjoyed the entire book combined with the characters, scenes, and actions; it just kept me posted and absolutely engrossed.

Stiff is a book that is clearly about cadavers that are human. In the book, Mary Roach gives stories in explaining how

It was able to go in great detail and give me knowledgeable information about what she feels is important in the scientific community. Moral issues are always a problem when we talk about research on dead bodies and I feel that she did a nice job going over some moral dilemmas that science has had to go through and work on. I enjoyed the book in whole and I felt that it gave me everything that I needed to improve my knowledge on the topic of cadavers. Cadavers are interesting, gross, cool, and make learning worthwhile. I appreciate the fact that I am able to work on and study the cadaver’s weekly. The amount of care that goes into keeping the cadavers preserved is also something that I find to be a great thing. Taking care of this person that is no longer living gives you the feeling that no matter the condition humans are able to overcome any discomforts they may have with studying and can keep the experiments coming. I believe that it is essential that we continue to use corpses to experiment. I also feel as though the way some of the experiments are conducted could be changed to keep the integrity of the person intact. Even though they may be dead when we begin to look at them at one time they were a human being that deserves some

I read Stiff, a nonfiction book written by Mary Roach. The overall theme is a sort of reassurance for the reader on death and the bodies it leaves behind. The book follows researcher Mary Roach as she travels around, discovering the options one has for their body after death. The introduction states “Seeing [her mother’s] cadaver was strange, but it wasn’t really sad. It wasn’t her” (13). As the book continues to elaborate on what happens to bodies after its inhabitants have left, she is careful to maintain that no matter what happens, the body is just a cadaver. The book tells the reader that a body can be useful after death through various methods, and to remember that the body is no longer the loved one it used to be. The book was enjoyable

The chapter Miodownik did on plastic was in my opinion, odd. It starts off with an altercation at a movie theater with a gentleman who for some reason really disliked plastic. Although it was informative, the rest of the chapter is written as a screenplay which I did not feel followed the flow of the rest of the book.

X-rays and CT scans, were used to teach students about relevant normal and abnormal anatomy.

When Roach visited Wayne state university she witnessed how the use of cadavers have enhanced the effectiveness of car safety. I greatly support the use of cadavers for this research because a dummy can only go so far. Yeah it is a cadaver and it does not directly correlate to a live person being that it does not react or “stiffen up” on impact, but it is the best resource we have.

and I loved it. The small chapters I also liked and hated, because they were short and some half paged which made the book eventually shorter than what it actually was logically. I also liked how Deuker goes really deep into great detail with everything, especially the characters. Overall, I like the way this book was written more than I

So the first was questioning about if he ever gets the girl next door, then connecting when they all see pips little sister walking for her first time and predicting in my next book the testing. Out of reach was a good book one of the best I’ve read so far, and the testing I’ve haven’t read much yet but I can tell its going to be a great book

In my opinion the book started getting better towards the end. I started the book

What I learned about writing about the body is that I should take chances in shocking or being direct with my readers because my work may create beautiful results and that writing about the body made me discover not only the vulnerabilities I wasn’t aware of others, but also about myself as a person and how that connects with the human condition. I learned that sometimes the only way to render a beautiful result in art is to reveal the grotesque or odd aspects of the real world to bring out its hidden beauty much like how a lump of coal can be the beginnings of a diamond. Other times something so simple yet vulnerable, like the direct language that McBee uses to express the struggles he went through, can morph into something beautiful

So far the book is slowly starting to make sense to me, I only had to read this section once to understand. I still particularly don’t care for this book but i’m excited to see where the author is taking it. I love that the story isn’t being dragged along but is going at a very fast pace.

This chapter was full of surprises. I still can not believe that Janie married a man that she just met in chapter four. In chapter five they are in a town with people they do not know. I do not like how these characters just moved in together in a different town and now they are trying to change or “fix” it and how Jody believes that

My favorite chapter was “The Audiovisual. Part Two.” That chapter was a chapter that I could relate to the most. I lost my Dad to cancer at the age one. Even though I was too young to remember what happened. I still wake up everyday feeling like a piece of me is missing. When Morrie talked about his Mom, I felt that I could relate to him. His Mom passed away when he was a kid, yet seventy years later, he still remembers it like it was yesterday. Even with time, all wounds cannot be completely healed; we just learn to live with it.

Many of these pieces broke my heart into what seems like a million pieces. A heavy topic in this book is sex, specifically, rape. This is something I’ve experienced, and the feelings that come with that experience are executed beautifully. It’s like the words I’ve been needing to say are on the pages in front of me. One thing I found interesting about this book is the fact that in random places, there are facts about different things. For example, on page 31, the word rape is defined, and then a story about the author’s childhood is told. It’s not poetic in the least, but it almost feels that way because of everything you’ve read up to that